Experimental study and model prediction of the influence of different factors on the mechanical properties of saline clay by Hui Cheng, Lingkai Zhang, Chong Shi, Pei Pei Fan

“…Large pores and three-dimensional porosity have the greatest influence on soil compressibility. (3) Permeability tests reveal an exponential negative correlation between the permeability coefficient and dry density. …”
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Examining the Effects of Construction Project Delays on Costs from the Perspective of Stakeholders Using a System Dynamics Approach: Insights from a Commercial Complex Project in Q... by Amirhosein Saffarinia, Hamidreza Yazdani

“…These viewpoints informed the development of policies and conditions, which were then, analyzed using the System Dynamics model   Results The results of this study revealed that, in inflationary conditions, costs increased exponentially over time. However, employing contract termination could prevent the imposition of more costs in such a situation. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of the impact of environmental degradation on women and the importance of women’s representation by Y.A. Pratama, M.Y.A. Kadir, A. Rivaldi, I.C. Mulya, S. Amirah, M. Iqhrammullah

“…The selection of frequently occurring keywords and clusters of keyword co-occurrence was carried out independently by two independent reviewers.FINDINGS: The bibliometric analysis included metadata from 3770 records, revealing an exponential increase in trends from 2000 to 2020. Keyword co-occurrence analysis identified eight research topic clusters focused on the environmental impact on women’s health. …”
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Enzymatic Activity and Horizontal Gene Transfer of Heavy Metals and Antibiotic Resistant Proteus vulgaris from Hospital Wastewater: An Insight by Manzar Alam, Nilofer Bano, Tarun Kumar Upadhyay, Reem Binsuwaidan, Nawaf Alshammari, Amit Baran Sharangi, Radhey Shyam Kaushal, Mohd Saeed

“…A higher transfer frequency (4.4 × 10−1) was observed among antibiotics, although a lower transfer frequency (1.0 × 10−2) was observed against metals in both the media from the entire site tested. According to exponential decay, the population of hospital wastewater declined in the following order across all sites: Site II > Site IV > Site III > Site I for antibiotics and site IV > site II > site I >site III for metal. …”
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A workplace-based HIV self-testing intervention as a determinant for self-testing knowledge, beliefs, and use among unskilled workers in Wakiso Uganda by Gerald Mukisa Nsereko, Khamisi Musanje, Eron Robinah Ayesiga, Loyce Kiiza Kobusingye, Rhoda Namubiru, Moses Sempala, Christine Kiwala, Martin Mabunda Baluku

“…However, it’s noteworthy to state that perceived barriers increased exponentially than earlier hypothesized amidst the knowledge acquired. …”
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Nowcasting to Monitor Real-Time Mpox Trends During the 2022 Outbreak in New York City: Evaluation Using Reportable Disease Data Stratified by Race or Ethnicity by Rebecca Rohrer, Allegra Wilson, Jennifer Baumgartner, Nicole Burton, Ray R Ortiz, Alan Dorsinville, Lucretia E Jones, Sharon K Greene

“…MethodsWe evaluated NobBS performance for New York City residents with a confirmed or probable mpox diagnosis or illness onset from July 8 through September 30, 2022, as compared with fully accrued cases. We used the exponentiated average log score (average score) to compare moving window lengths, stratifying or not by race or ethnicity, diagnosis and onset dates, and daily and weekly aggregation. …”
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Biological Characteristics and Whole-Genome Analysis of a Porcine <i>E. coli</i> Phage by Shenghui Wan, Nana Li, Sajid Habib, Pei Zheng, Yanfang Li, Yan Liang, Yonggang Qu

“…The optimal MOI for phage Psq-1 was 0.1, with a latent period of 25 min, an exponential growth period of 25 min, and a lysis yield of 44.21 PFU/cell. …”
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Carotenoids in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration: a drug delivery system does matter by M.L. Maximov, Zh.G. Oganezova, I.D. Kanner, Voznesenskaya A.A

“…By 2040, the number of people living with macular degeneration is expected to reach 288 million due to the exponential acceleration of population aging. A decline in visual functions caused by AMD has a significant economic impact in all countries. …”
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High risk for life-threatening adverse events of fluoroquinolones in young adults: a large German population-based cohort study by Julia Wicherski, Jonas Peltner, Cornelia Becker, Katrin Schüssel, Gabriela Brückner, Andreas Schlotmann, Helmut Schröder, Winfried V. Kern, Britta Haenisch

“…Adjusted hazard ratios were estimated from piece-wise exponential additive mixed models with smooth non-linear effects for person-time and age and adjusted for comorbidities, year and quarter at index. …”
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Influence law and control mechanism of coal seam permeability on coal and gas outburst by Chaolin ZHANG, Mingliang LIU, Enyuan WANG, Peizhong WANG, Qiaozhen JIANG, Wei ZENG

“…The relative outburst strengths of four experiments are 75.63%, 44.65%, 38.01%, and 10.97%, respectively, and the fitting results show that the relative outburst strength decreases exponentially with the increase of coal seam permeability. …”
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LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF INDEPENDENT AZERBAIJAN IN RELATION TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES by Katana Gafarova

“…The potential for the advancement of such relations is acknowledged, with the premise of exponential diversification being established as a foundation. …”
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Effect of intravitreal injections on the progression and prognosis of primary open-angle glaucoma by A.B. Movsisyan, N.G. Glazko, A.Yu. Brezhnev, A.V. Kuroyedov

“…Over the last two decades, exponential growth in the rate of IVIs has been seen worldwide. …”
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Adaptation for Staphylococcus aureus to hosts via insertion mutation in the accessory gene regulator agrC gene: decreased virulence and enhanced persistence capacity by Jiawei Chen, Yun Wu, Ying Zhu, Li Zhang, Yingchun Xu, Yali Liu

“…ATP assay results indicated that 23B maintained elevated ATP levels during the exponential phase yet exhibited reduced levels in the stationary phase when compared with 23H. …”
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Features of development and progression of colorectal cancer on a background of ulcerative colitis by I. L. Khalif, V. N. Kashnikov, A. V. Gusev, O. V. Golovenko, K. V. Bolikhov, L. L. Kapuller, A. N. Kuznetsov, A. V. Vasilchenko

“…The risk of CRC development, apparently, directly depends on duration of intestinal inflammatory process, growing exponentially after 10 years of disease history. Combined effect of disease duration and UC intestinal extent increases probability of CRC development several times. …”
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Optimization and Evaluation of Conditions for Orthotopic Nude Mouse Models of Human Liver Tumor Cells by MENG Yu, LIANG Dongli, ZHENG Linlin, ZHOU Yuanyuan, WANG Zhaoxia

“…The luminescence intensity of successfully modeled mice increased exponentially over time (R2>0.950 0), and reached a minimum of 1.0×107 p/(s·cm²·sr) by day 14 post-transplantation. …”
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Steady-state mixing state of black carbon aerosols from a particle-resolved model by Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, N. Riemer, C. Liu, C. Liu, Y. Jin, Y. Jin, Z. Tian, Z. Tian, J. Cai, J. Cai, Y. Cheng, Y. Cheng, G. Chen, G. Chen, B. Wang, B. Wang, S. Wang, A. Ding, A. Ding

“…The distribution of CT follows an exponential linear distribution and can be characterized by a single slope parameter <span class="inline-formula"><i>k</i></span>. …”
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Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of soil respiration in a bare-soil Mediterranean olive grove by S. Aranda-Barranco, S. Aranda-Barranco, P. Serrano-Ortiz, P. Serrano-Ortiz, A. S. Kowalski, A. S. Kowalski, E. P. Sánchez-Cañete, E. P. Sánchez-Cañete

“…Higher <span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i>_s</span> was found on the southern face, and an exponential decay of <span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i>_s</span> was observed until the alley's center was reached. …”
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Maximum ozone concentrations in the southwestern US and Texas: implications of the growing predominance of the background contribution by D. D. Parrish, I. C. Faloona, I. C. Faloona, R. G. Derwent

“…The very different temporal variations in the separate contributions provide the basis for this analysis: over the past 4 decades the anthropogenic contribution has decreased at an approximately exponential rate by a factor of <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 6.3, while the US background concentration rose significantly through the 1980s and 1990s, reached a maximum in the mid-2000s, and has since slowly decreased. …”
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Biodiversity Patterns of Rocky Coastal and Human-Made Structures in Gheshm Shorelines; Role of Slope and Tidal Levels Characteristics in Determining Patterns of Biodiversity by Marzieh Razaghi, Ali Nasrolahi, Ehsan Kamrani, Mohammad Sharif Ranjbar, Amir Vazirizadeh

“…This transformation accelerates in response to exponential population growth and climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels and the need to mitigate natural disasters like storm surges. …”
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Multidimensional Stability of Planar Traveling Waves for Competitive–Cooperative Lotka–Volterra System of Three Species by Na Shi, Xin Wu, Zhaohai Ma

“…For planar traveling waves with speed <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>c</mi><mo>></mo><msup><mi>c</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, we establish their exponential stability in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>L</mi><mo>∞</mo></msup><mrow><mo>(</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="double-struck">R</mi><mi>n</mi></msup><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, which is expressed as <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>t</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mstyle><mfrac><mi>n</mi><mn>2</mn></mfrac></mstyle></mrow></msup><msup><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>τ</mi></msub><mi>σ</mi><mi>t</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>σ</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> is a constant and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>τ</mi></msub><mo>∈</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> depends on the time delay <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>τ</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> as a decreasing function <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>τ</mi></msub><mo>=</mo><mi>ε</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>τ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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